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Markant, Douglas B.; Settles, Burr; Gureckis, Todd M. – Cognitive Science, 2016
Collecting (or "sampling") information that one expects to be useful is a powerful way to facilitate learning. However, relatively little is known about how people decide which information is worth sampling over the course of learning. We describe several alternative models of how people might decide to collect a piece of information…
Descriptors: Information Seeking, Search Strategies, Independent Study, Active Learning
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Ondrusek, Anita L.; Ren, Xiaoai; Yang, Changwoo – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2017
Online searching is a skill that all professional programs educating librarians consider an essential part of their curricula. However, investigations of online searching behavior have centered almost exclusively on end users, and there have been no recent formal studies that explore the online searching behaviors of MLIS students. In this study,…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Learning Strategies, Masters Programs, Graduate Students